100 cxxv. CHLOEANTHACE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) \Chloranthus. 



radicle inferior. Genera 3, species 25, tropical and subtropical (not 

 African). 



The above character does not embrace the anomalous genus Circaaster which is 

 appended to the Order. 



CHLORANTHUS, Swartz. 



Perennial herbs, or shrubs. Flowers in terminal simple or panicled 

 spikes, connate $ and ? in pairs. Stamens 1, or 3 confluent; central 

 anther 2-celled, lateral anthers 1-celled. Ovary naked; stigma subsessile, 

 truncate. Species 8, Eastern Asiatic. 



1. C. officinalis, Blume Enum. PI. Jav. 79 ; Fl. Jav. iii. 10, t. 1 ; 

 leaves 'subsessile elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate acuminate finely gland-ser- 

 rulate, anthers 3 connate by their connective. Solms in DC. Prodr. xvi. 1. 

 474 ; Miq. FL Ind. Bat. i. 1. 804. C. elatior, Br. in Sot. Mag. t. 2190. C. 

 erectus, Sweet ; Wall. Cat. 6881. Cryphea erecta, Ham. in Brewst. Ed. 

 Journ. 1825, 11, t. 2. 



EASTERN HIMALAYA ; Sikkim, in hot valleys, J. D. H. BHOTAN, Clarke. ASSAM, 

 SILHET and the KHASIA MTS., ascending to 4000 ft., Wallich, &c., and southward 

 to PENANG, the ANDAMAN ISLANDS, and MALACCA, Maingay. DISTEIB. Yunan, 

 Malay Archipelago, Philippine Islands. 



An evergreen erect undershrub, 1-3 ft., quite glabrous and shining. Leaves 

 very variable in size and breadth, subsessile, from 3 by 1 in. to 10 by 4 in. ; petiole 

 -. in. Spikes 1-2 in., in panicles 2-5 in. long ; flowers minute, distant. Berries 

 in. diatn., white. 



2. C. brachystachyus, Blume Fl. Jav.fasc. viii. 13, 14, t. 2 ; leaves 

 shortly petioled elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate acuminate coarsely callously 

 serrate, anthers solitary 4-celled. Solms in DC. Prodr. xvi. 1. 475 ; Miq. 

 Fl. Ind. Bat. i. 2. 801, and Ann. Mus. Lugd. Ind. Bat. iii. 129. C. monander, 

 Br.inBot.Mag.i.2l$()innote* C. ceylanicus, Miq. 1. c. 802. C. denti- 

 culatus, Cord, in Adaus iii. 296. Ascarina serrata, Bl. En. Fl. Jav. i. 79. 

 Sarcandra chloranthoides, Gardn. in Gale. Journ. Nat. Hist. viii. 348 ; 

 Wight Ic. t. 1946 ; Cord. I. c. 301. 



KHASIA MTS., alt. 4-5000 ft., Jenkins, &c. TBAVANCOKE; on the Pulney Mts., 

 Wight. PENANG, Porter, Wallich, Maingay. CEYLON ; Central Province, alt. 

 3-5000 ft., Walker, &c. DISTEIB. China, Philippine Islands, Japan. 



Habit of C. ojfftcinalis, but taller and more woody, with deeply serrate leaves and 

 red berries. 



UNDETERMINABLE AND EXCLUDED SPECIES. 



C. GBANDIFOLIUS, Miq. Fl. Ind. Sat. i. 1. 802; Solms in DC. Prodr. xvi. 1. 

 477 ; " branches warted, leaves petioled membranous 7-8 in. long, obversely oblong 

 acuminate remotely callously mucronate-serrate base acute or subcuneate, nerves 

 8-10 erecto-patent, petiole \ f in., spikes brachiate subopposite or alternate, bract 

 ovate boat-shaped tip subcallous. Herb. Wight, n. 878." I can form no guess as 

 to what this is, having found nothing corresponding to the description in Wight's 

 Herbarium. 



C. rNCONSPicuus, Swartz in Phil.' Trans. Ixviii. 359, t. 15; Solms I. c. 474. 

 C. indicus, Wight Ic. t. 19i5. The specimens of this from which Wight's published 

 drawing was made are in his Herbarium, but without locality, nor is any locality given 

 with his description in the Icones; they are no doubt from China. 



ANOMALOUS GENUS. 

 CIRCJEASTER, Maxim. 

 A small, inconspicuous, very slender annual, with a simple filiform 



